Employment, education, and earnings of American men of science |
Autore | Shapiro Theresa R. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C. : , : United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, , 1951 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (iv, 48 pages) : illustrations, maps, forms |
Collana | Bulletin |
Soggetto topico |
Scientists - Salaries, etc - United States
Scientists - Employment - United States Science - Vocational guidance Scientists |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910714196203321 |
Shapiro Theresa R.
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Eurekas and euphorias : the Oxford book of scientific anecdotes / / Walter Gratzer |
Autore | Gratzer W. B (Walter Bruno), <1932-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (664 p.) |
Disciplina |
500
502 |
Soggetto topico |
Science
Discoveries in science Scientists |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-19-157929-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; 1 The great stench; 2 Culture clash; 3 The reveries of Kekulé; 4 Rontgen's rays; 5 Light on sweetness: the discovery of aspartame; 6 Otto Stern's sulphurous cigars; 7 Metchnikoff restored to life; 8 An ill wind; 9 Marie Curie and the Immortals; 10 'Every integer his personal friend': Hardy visits Ramanujan; 11 David Hilbert's eulogy; 12 Rabi meets his match; 13 The Bucklands explode a miracle; 14 Farmyard thermodynamics; 15 Newton ponders; 16 Rutherford finds a solution; 17 The vanishing blackboard; 18 Cats and dogmas
19 But what use is it?20 Unlocking the chains; 21 Of life and death; 22 Mathematical peril; 23 Fortune favours the ham fist; 24 To discern a true vocation; 25 The Pauli principle; 26 The first eureka; 27 Lordly disdain; 28 A martyr to science; 29 The marble and the mop; 30 Pythagoras's theme; 31 New ways with barometers; 32 The professor remembers; 33 Dalton's daltonism; 34 The trick of the tick; 35 Comfort in adversity; 36 Winter in Paris: Becquerel and the discovery of radioactivity; 37 The unbreakable cypher; 38 Two hundred monks aleaping and the devil in the bottle 39 The success of the operation and the death of the patient40 Pendant professor; 41 Feud; 42 The man of few words; 43 Mauled by the Bulldog; 44 Damping the canine rotor; 45 Nemesis in Nancy; 46 Mathematician's melodrama; 47 Ben Franklin stills the waves; 48 Fraternal fire; 49 The wages of sin; 50 Loving an enzyme; 51 The poltergeist next door; 52 The problem solver; 53 The Resonance Bridge 88; 54 A laboratory libation; 55 Slot machine yields jackpot; 56 Shooting down Venus; 57 None so blind; 58 Raising the dead; 59 Vibrios in Vienna; 60 Drowning the telephone; 61 Trouble at t'lab 62 The child is father to the man63 Hooke's tease; 64 Know your adversary; 65 The divine spark comes by night; 66 Following by example; 67 Science for survival; 68 The hounding of J. J. Sylvester; 69 The quiet American; 70 Solving the insoluble; 71 A sceptic confounded; 72 Wrong experiment, right conclusion; 73 Old soldiers never die; 74 A case of night starvation; 75 Fortunate furtive encounter; 76 Eddington's disobedient conscience; 77 Smoking for the Führer; 78 Polish and perish; 79 Baccy and quanta; 80 The country doctor, his captive, and the professor; 81 Whispers from the void 82 The lying stones of Mount Eivelstadt83 The mind of a mathematician; 84 The old melon; 85 Strong medicine; 86 A Russian tragedy; 87 The way of the world; 88 Tug of war on the thread of life; 89 The trivial and profound; 90 Phlogiston consigned to flames; 91 The errant compass; 92 Liberation by fire; 93 How small is small?; 94 Seeing sparks; 95 A Victorian tragedy, a twentieth-century sequel; 96 A visit to the Führer; 97 Butterfly in Beijing; 98 Cook knows best; 99 Chemistry in the kitchen: the discovery of nitrocellulose; 100 The living fossil; 101 The sound of physics; 102 Grand Guignol 103 The mathematical wallpaper |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910459604603321 |
Gratzer W. B (Walter Bruno), <1932->
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Eurekas and euphorias : the Oxford book of scientific anecdotes / / Walter Gratzer |
Autore | Gratzer W. B (Walter Bruno), <1932-2021, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (664 p.) |
Disciplina |
500
502 |
Soggetto topico |
Science
Discoveries in science Scientists |
ISBN |
1-383-00267-3
0-19-157929-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; 1 The great stench; 2 Culture clash; 3 The reveries of Kekulé; 4 Rontgen's rays; 5 Light on sweetness: the discovery of aspartame; 6 Otto Stern's sulphurous cigars; 7 Metchnikoff restored to life; 8 An ill wind; 9 Marie Curie and the Immortals; 10 'Every integer his personal friend': Hardy visits Ramanujan; 11 David Hilbert's eulogy; 12 Rabi meets his match; 13 The Bucklands explode a miracle; 14 Farmyard thermodynamics; 15 Newton ponders; 16 Rutherford finds a solution; 17 The vanishing blackboard; 18 Cats and dogmas
19 But what use is it?20 Unlocking the chains; 21 Of life and death; 22 Mathematical peril; 23 Fortune favours the ham fist; 24 To discern a true vocation; 25 The Pauli principle; 26 The first eureka; 27 Lordly disdain; 28 A martyr to science; 29 The marble and the mop; 30 Pythagoras's theme; 31 New ways with barometers; 32 The professor remembers; 33 Dalton's daltonism; 34 The trick of the tick; 35 Comfort in adversity; 36 Winter in Paris: Becquerel and the discovery of radioactivity; 37 The unbreakable cypher; 38 Two hundred monks aleaping and the devil in the bottle 39 The success of the operation and the death of the patient40 Pendant professor; 41 Feud; 42 The man of few words; 43 Mauled by the Bulldog; 44 Damping the canine rotor; 45 Nemesis in Nancy; 46 Mathematician's melodrama; 47 Ben Franklin stills the waves; 48 Fraternal fire; 49 The wages of sin; 50 Loving an enzyme; 51 The poltergeist next door; 52 The problem solver; 53 The Resonance Bridge 88; 54 A laboratory libation; 55 Slot machine yields jackpot; 56 Shooting down Venus; 57 None so blind; 58 Raising the dead; 59 Vibrios in Vienna; 60 Drowning the telephone; 61 Trouble at t'lab 62 The child is father to the man63 Hooke's tease; 64 Know your adversary; 65 The divine spark comes by night; 66 Following by example; 67 Science for survival; 68 The hounding of J. J. Sylvester; 69 The quiet American; 70 Solving the insoluble; 71 A sceptic confounded; 72 Wrong experiment, right conclusion; 73 Old soldiers never die; 74 A case of night starvation; 75 Fortunate furtive encounter; 76 Eddington's disobedient conscience; 77 Smoking for the Führer; 78 Polish and perish; 79 Baccy and quanta; 80 The country doctor, his captive, and the professor; 81 Whispers from the void 82 The lying stones of Mount Eivelstadt83 The mind of a mathematician; 84 The old melon; 85 Strong medicine; 86 A Russian tragedy; 87 The way of the world; 88 Tug of war on the thread of life; 89 The trivial and profound; 90 Phlogiston consigned to flames; 91 The errant compass; 92 Liberation by fire; 93 How small is small?; 94 Seeing sparks; 95 A Victorian tragedy, a twentieth-century sequel; 96 A visit to the Führer; 97 Butterfly in Beijing; 98 Cook knows best; 99 Chemistry in the kitchen: the discovery of nitrocellulose; 100 The living fossil; 101 The sound of physics; 102 Grand Guignol 103 The mathematical wallpaper |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790060403321 |
Gratzer W. B (Walter Bruno), <1932-2021, >
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Eurekas and euphorias : the Oxford book of scientific anecdotes / / Walter Gratzer |
Autore | Gratzer W. B (Walter Bruno), <1932-2021, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (664 p.) |
Disciplina |
500
502 |
Soggetto topico |
Science
Discoveries in science Scientists |
ISBN |
1-383-00267-3
0-19-157929-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; 1 The great stench; 2 Culture clash; 3 The reveries of Kekulé; 4 Rontgen's rays; 5 Light on sweetness: the discovery of aspartame; 6 Otto Stern's sulphurous cigars; 7 Metchnikoff restored to life; 8 An ill wind; 9 Marie Curie and the Immortals; 10 'Every integer his personal friend': Hardy visits Ramanujan; 11 David Hilbert's eulogy; 12 Rabi meets his match; 13 The Bucklands explode a miracle; 14 Farmyard thermodynamics; 15 Newton ponders; 16 Rutherford finds a solution; 17 The vanishing blackboard; 18 Cats and dogmas
19 But what use is it?20 Unlocking the chains; 21 Of life and death; 22 Mathematical peril; 23 Fortune favours the ham fist; 24 To discern a true vocation; 25 The Pauli principle; 26 The first eureka; 27 Lordly disdain; 28 A martyr to science; 29 The marble and the mop; 30 Pythagoras's theme; 31 New ways with barometers; 32 The professor remembers; 33 Dalton's daltonism; 34 The trick of the tick; 35 Comfort in adversity; 36 Winter in Paris: Becquerel and the discovery of radioactivity; 37 The unbreakable cypher; 38 Two hundred monks aleaping and the devil in the bottle 39 The success of the operation and the death of the patient40 Pendant professor; 41 Feud; 42 The man of few words; 43 Mauled by the Bulldog; 44 Damping the canine rotor; 45 Nemesis in Nancy; 46 Mathematician's melodrama; 47 Ben Franklin stills the waves; 48 Fraternal fire; 49 The wages of sin; 50 Loving an enzyme; 51 The poltergeist next door; 52 The problem solver; 53 The Resonance Bridge 88; 54 A laboratory libation; 55 Slot machine yields jackpot; 56 Shooting down Venus; 57 None so blind; 58 Raising the dead; 59 Vibrios in Vienna; 60 Drowning the telephone; 61 Trouble at t'lab 62 The child is father to the man63 Hooke's tease; 64 Know your adversary; 65 The divine spark comes by night; 66 Following by example; 67 Science for survival; 68 The hounding of J. J. Sylvester; 69 The quiet American; 70 Solving the insoluble; 71 A sceptic confounded; 72 Wrong experiment, right conclusion; 73 Old soldiers never die; 74 A case of night starvation; 75 Fortunate furtive encounter; 76 Eddington's disobedient conscience; 77 Smoking for the Führer; 78 Polish and perish; 79 Baccy and quanta; 80 The country doctor, his captive, and the professor; 81 Whispers from the void 82 The lying stones of Mount Eivelstadt83 The mind of a mathematician; 84 The old melon; 85 Strong medicine; 86 A Russian tragedy; 87 The way of the world; 88 Tug of war on the thread of life; 89 The trivial and profound; 90 Phlogiston consigned to flames; 91 The errant compass; 92 Liberation by fire; 93 How small is small?; 94 Seeing sparks; 95 A Victorian tragedy, a twentieth-century sequel; 96 A visit to the Führer; 97 Butterfly in Beijing; 98 Cook knows best; 99 Chemistry in the kitchen: the discovery of nitrocellulose; 100 The living fossil; 101 The sound of physics; 102 Grand Guignol 103 The mathematical wallpaper |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910816003503321 |
Gratzer W. B (Walter Bruno), <1932-2021, >
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Failing Families, Failing Science : Work-Family Conflict in Academic Science / / Elaine Ecklund, Anne E. Lincoln |
Autore | Ecklund Elaine |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (163 pages) |
Disciplina | 306.36 |
Soggetto topico |
Science - Study and teaching (Higher)
Science - Vocational guidance Work and family Scientists - Family relationships Scientists |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-4798-5118-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. When Nothing Matters Except Science -- 2. Family Matters to Science -- 3. Will I Make It? Family Life for Young Scientists -- 4. Managing the Controlled Crash -- 5. When the Ideal Scientist Meets the Ideal Mother -- 6. A Way Forward for Universities, Science, and Scientists -- Appendix A: The Study -- Appendix B: Web Survey -- Appendix C: Long Interview Guide -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Authors |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910480509703321 |
Ecklund Elaine
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Failing Families, Failing Science : Work-Family Conflict in Academic Science / / Elaine Ecklund, Anne E. Lincoln |
Autore | Ecklund Elaine |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (163 pages) |
Disciplina | 306.36 |
Soggetto topico |
Science - Study and teaching (Higher)
Science - Vocational guidance Work and family Scientists - Family relationships Scientists |
ISBN | 1-4798-5118-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. When Nothing Matters Except Science -- 2. Family Matters to Science -- 3. Will I Make It? Family Life for Young Scientists -- 4. Managing the Controlled Crash -- 5. When the Ideal Scientist Meets the Ideal Mother -- 6. A Way Forward for Universities, Science, and Scientists -- Appendix A: The Study -- Appendix B: Web Survey -- Appendix C: Long Interview Guide -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Authors |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798564003321 |
Ecklund Elaine
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Failing Families, Failing Science : Work-Family Conflict in Academic Science / / Elaine Ecklund, Anne E. Lincoln |
Autore | Ecklund Elaine |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (163 pages) |
Disciplina | 306.36 |
Soggetto topico |
Science - Study and teaching (Higher)
Science - Vocational guidance Work and family Scientists - Family relationships Scientists |
ISBN | 1-4798-5118-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. When Nothing Matters Except Science -- 2. Family Matters to Science -- 3. Will I Make It? Family Life for Young Scientists -- 4. Managing the Controlled Crash -- 5. When the Ideal Scientist Meets the Ideal Mother -- 6. A Way Forward for Universities, Science, and Scientists -- Appendix A: The Study -- Appendix B: Web Survey -- Appendix C: Long Interview Guide -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Authors |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910814785703321 |
Ecklund Elaine
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Federal spending and scientist and engineer employment : a study in measurement |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Washington, D.C.] : , : U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics, , 1970 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (vi, 46 pages) |
Disciplina | 331.7/61/50973 |
Collana | Bulletin |
Soggetto topico |
Scientists - United States
Engineers - United States Engineers Scientists |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | Federal Spending and Scientist and Engineer Employment |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910714016103321 |
[Washington, D.C.] : , : U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics, , 1970 | ||
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Frankenstein : or, the modern Prometheus / / by Mary W. Shelley ; with illustrations by Nino Carbe |
Autore | Shelley Mary W. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Mineola, New York : , : Calla Editions, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (171 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 823.7 |
Soggetto topico |
Frankenstein's monster (Fictitious character)
Frankenstein, Victor (Fictitious character) Scientists |
ISBN | 1-60660-108-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910156229603321 |
Shelley Mary W.
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Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus : annotated for scientists, engineers, and creators of all kinds / / Mary Shelley ; edited by David H. Guston, Ed Finn, and Jason Scott Robert |
Autore | Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft <1797-1851, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, MA : , : The MIT Press, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (277 pages) : digital file(s) |
Disciplina | 823/.7 |
Collana | The MIT Press |
Soggetto topico |
Scientists
Monsters Science in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma |
Horror fiction
Science fiction |
ISBN |
0-262-34027-5
0-262-34026-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti |
Frankenstein
Modern Prometheus |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910213852003321 |
Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft <1797-1851, >
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